Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

The fractal brain: scale-invariance in structure and dynamics

GF Grosu, AV Hopp, VV Moca, H Bârzan… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The past 40 years have witnessed extensive research on fractal structure and scale-free
dynamics in the brain. Although considerable progress has been made, a comprehensive …

Swarm intelligence and cyber-physical systems: concepts, challenges and future trends

M Schranz, GA Di Caro, T Schmickl… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

What is a complex system?

J Ladyman, J Lambert, K Wiesner - European Journal for Philosophy of …, 2013 - Springer
Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Predicting trends in the quality of state-of-the-art neural networks without access to training or testing data

CH Martin, T Peng, MW Mahoney - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
In many applications, one works with neural network models trained by someone else. For
such pretrained models, one may not have access to training data or test data. Moreover …

Econophysics and sociophysics: Their milestones & challenges

R Kutner, M Ausloos, D Grech, T Di Matteo… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review article we present some of achievements of econophysics and sociophysics
which appear to us the most significant. We briefly explain what their roles are in building of …

Complex systems methods characterizing nonlinear processes in the near-earth electromagnetic environment: Recent advances and open challenges

G Balasis, MA Balikhin, SC Chapman… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Learning from successful applications of methods originating in statistical mechanics,
complex systems science, or information theory in one scientific field (eg, atmospheric …

Power law size distributions in geoscience revisited

Á Corral, Á González - Earth and Space Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The size or energy of diverse structures or phenomena in geoscience appears to follow
power law distributions. A rigorous statistical analysis of such observations is tricky, though …

Scale-free correlations and potential criticality in weakly ordered populations of brain cancer cells

KB Wood, A Comba, S Motsch, TS Grigera… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Collective behavior spans several orders of magnitude of biological organization, from cell
colonies to flocks of birds. We used time-resolved tracking of individual glioblastoma cells to …

[HTML][HTML] Risk-opportunity analysis for transformative policy design and appraisal

JF Mercure, S Sharpe, JE Vinuales, M Ives… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The climate crisis demands a strong response from policy-makers worldwide. The current
global climate policy agenda requires technological change, innovation, labour markets and …